A Beverage For All Seasons: Green Tea

By Author: Adarsh Singh
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One of the most popular health beverages, Green Tea is consumed both for its invigorating flavour and its ability to boost overall health.
While the history of green tea dates back 5,000 years and was consumed mainly in East Asia, today it’s a popular health beverage across the world.
What is Green Tea made of?
Green Tea is made from the freshly harvested buds and leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. Unlike black tea, where the leaves of Green Tea are left unfermented. This helps to preserve its beautiful emerald green colour and rich natural antioxidant content including Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and other catechins that provide a number of health benefits.
Here are 5 key benefits of Green Tea:

1) Helps to enhance metabolism
Studies have confirmed that the catechins present in green tea play a major role in helping to suppress appetite and boost metabolism. They also help prevent the accumulation of belly fat while lowering triglycerides and bad cholesterol in the body.
So, have a cup of green tea before breakfast and in the late afternoon to ensure you get ...
... the full benefits of the antioxidants for both cardiac health and healthy metabolism. Try ORGANIC INDIA’s Tulsi Green Tea Lemon Ginger for the benefits of green tea with the goodness of tulsi, lemon, and ginger too.

2) Reduces Inflammation
Green tea has one of the highest amounts of antioxidants of any tea. These antioxidants help reduce inflammation, which is the cause of major lifestyle diseases including obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. The antioxidants aid in neutralizing free radicals and reducing inflammation, thus preventing cell damage and premature ageing, while enhancing your body’s immune function, and strengthening it over time.
Through cellular, animal, and human experiments, green tea and its major component, epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), have been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory effects. According to research the catechin, EGCG in green tea helps suppress the gene and/or protein expression of inflammatory cytokines and inflammation-related enzymes.
In fact, these healing effects are multiplied when Green Tea is combined with other healing herbs like Tulsi, Lemon, lemongrass, and Ginger. The benefits of Green Tea with lemon include added boost of vitamins and minerals and antioxidants helping your refresh and heal at the same time.
Try ORGANIC INDIA’s Tulsi Green Tea Lemon Ginger. Add 1 infusion bag per cup (120ml) and pour boiling water over it. Let steep for 3-5 minutes. Double the strength if serving iced. Best when consumed without milk.

3) Helps Reduce Stress
Green tea contains an essential amino acid called L-theanine that is known to have a stress-relieving effect on the brain, helping you cultivate a relaxed state of mind, and increasing mental alertness as well. It can help reduce cortisol levels to even reduce physical stress to a large extent.
So, reduce the stress from your long workdays by starting your day with a refreshing and healing cup of Tulsi Green Tea Classic, or calm those frayed nerves in the middle of the day with a glass of iced green tea with a natural sweetener of your choice.
Want to wind down in the evening? Try Tulsi Green Tea Jasmine which contains tulsi and green tea blended with sweet jasmine, chamomile flowers, and spicy ginger, for a truly refreshing and calming experience.


4) Boosts Brain Health
Green tea contains several natural stimulants, including caffeine, which, even though it is not as high as coffee, may help maintain alertness and focus. In addition, green tea is a source of the amino acid L-theanine, which has a relaxing effect; it does this by increasing mood-enhancing brain chemicals, including dopamine, GABA, and serotonin. Additionally, the beneficial polyphenols of green tea may also help slow the effects of aging on the brain. So, if you are someone who is a caffeine addict or enjoys a refreshing cup of tea, then the Tulsi Sweet Lemon Tea from Organic India is perfect for you. With a blend of Tulsi leaves, green tea, and lemongrass, this organic Tulsi Sweet Lemon will ease you into blissful sipping! It is infused with spices such as ginger, mulethi, and cardamom to enhance the flavour. Healing herbal embraces and deliciousness all rolled into one.

5) Supports Digestion
The polyphenols present in green tea help to improve digestion by reducing inflammation in the gut and research indicates that consuming green tea can also help to increase the growth of good gut bacteria, preventing conditions like leaky gut, and more.
Hence the benefits of green tea for the stomach include supporting better digestion, reduction in bloating and gas, elimination of excess belly fat, and healthy gut flora.
Have a cup of green tea daily to strengthen your digestive system over time, while keeping a gap of one hour before and after meals.
If you have eaten a particularly heavy or spicy meal, you can use the digestive enzyme-boosting properties of lemons with green tea’s benefits by choosing ORGANIC INDIA’s Tulsi Green Tea Lemon Ginger. The benefits of lemon green tea include assistance in faster breakdown and assimilation of food, elimination of toxins from the digestive tract, and reduced gas and bloating.

To summarise, whether you are trying to relax with a delicious beverage or improve your overall health or lower your risk of illness, green tea is one of the healthiest daily beverages to add to your daily lifestyle.